[Libguestfs] [PATCH] NEW API: mktemp

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 09:24:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:32:46PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> On 10/15/2012 04:17 PM, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> > On 10/15/2012 04:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:10:23AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>> It all seems good.  What would be the real killer feature would be
> >>> some sort of 'cleanup' flag which removes the file/directory when the
> >>> daemon exits ...
> >>
> >> Although the implementation would be hard, because you
> >> wouldn't necessarily know that the filesystem was still mounted.
> > 
> > Yeah, and I think the "cleanup" feature is not needed by "mktemp" command.
> > BTW, the temporary dir/file can't be removed automatically?
> 
> More comments?

No, I'll apply it today.

I don't think the "cleanup" flag can be implemented (unfortunately).

Rich.

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